Mastering Cloud Development using Microsoft Azure

Searching in catalogs via Azure Search

To create the Azure Search service, you need to enter into the Azure portal and go to New | Data + Storage | Azure Search. Similar to other Azure services, you need to select:

• A lowercase name for the public and global endpoint (.search.windows.net)
• The resource group
• The location where the service is deployed
• The pricing tier

You pay for what you use. Azure Search can be classified as a NoSQL key/value store database, as it stores JSON objects in indexes for subsequent search and access. The features include:

• The pricing is the expression of resources
• Partitions, as the data is distributed to perform searches in parallel
• Search units, as a virtual unit of computing
• 25 GB and 15 million documents per partition

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